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How did diabetes affect something you did last week?

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We went away for the weekend with friends in our motorhome. Belting weekend.

As a gang - we all went swimming on Saturday evening - we decided we'd had enough, would get dressed and meet again in the café for a coffee before going back to site. Came out, sorted my shower stuff out and went back to dry myself and dress and seemed to be having difficulty with it all. Oooh - better test! Lucozade followed, dried off and dressed and into the cafe where they'd already got me a hot choc with squirty cream waiting - just the right heat and just the thing!

Only thing was - by then I had discovered my stupidity. There were just THREE strips left in the pot - and I had no more. So - I managed by being very very good for the next 2 days. Didn't test before bed, I tested when I got up Sunday - only 'a bit' high (between 2 and 3 more than I'd have liked) and after that I only ate exactly what I knew the carb value of and bolused accordingly. Tested on Monday morning - fine!

Went home after dinner on Monday as we'd planned anyway BUT I 'treated' myself and tested before we ate dinner! LOL

Surprised both me and my husband. If any of those tests had been off the wall or I'd gone hypo again in the meantime - then we'd have had no alternative but to come home before that. We weren't anywhere near anywhere with a pharmacy (nearest town was approx. 15 miles) and no-one was coincidentally going there in the meantime otherwise I'd have cadged a lift and gone and bought some and actually had I bothered explaining all this to anyone in a caravan ie with a car, no doubt they'd have offered immediately even though it was red hot and none of us wanted to move LOL - but why turn a drama into a crisis!

I've simply never ever done that kind of thing before - and now will make bloody sure I never do again! LOL Not nice, worrying for two days, especially knowing it was all my fault - so serves me right doesn't it?.

All's well that ends well. Unless anyone agrees with the penultimate paragraph in which case I'll argue it was diabetes' fault, naturally!
 
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Yesterday afternoon I was doing some errands, the temperature was 37 C and I had parked the car really near that ice cream parlor. There was a queue of people buying ice creams, big ice creams.
I loved absolutely ice creams, especially the ones made by small shops like this, and this is one of the best in Turin, in my opinion.

I decided with a surge of will power to continue with my errands.
 
MikeTurin said:
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Yesterday afternoon I was doing some errands, the temperature was 37 C and I had parked the car really near that ice cream parlor. There was a queue of people buying ice creams, big ice creams.
I loved absolutely ice creams, especially the ones made by small shops like this, and this is one of the best in Turin, in my opinion.

I decided with a surge of will power to continue with my errands.
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Oh Yummy. I doubt if I would have had such willpower.
 
Nothing apart from ensuring I had my D kit with me.
 
Was at the Battle of Waterloo re-enactment in Belgium. Standing around open fields, very little if any shade, I found I felt the heat weighed me down and my mood was affected. I was quite short with a few fellow members of the audience, and impatient with myself.
 
Quite generic but something that happens everyday. I can't eat what I want be it at home or in the canteen at work, family get together's.
 
realising my life goals have changed along with my diet.

Realising I will always have diabetes regardless what weight I am.

Realising I might just need that tummy tuck after all which depresses me if I'm honest because I had to change my diet because of the diabetes.
 
No real influence on what I did last week.

I look at the changes I have made as normal not as part of having diabetes. Look forward not back
 
I'm still in my first 6 months, so things are still new. I am quite strict and on-the-ball with blood glucose levels, but last week I was having at least one hypo a day. Although I know that my levels sometimes increase in heat, I suspect this is what was causing me to go low.

It was very frustrating. I had to take a moment out of sport, looking after younger children, evening activities etc. Luckily the hypos seem to have stopped, and I know that diabetes doesn't ever have to stop me, but this was just annoying.
 
I TRY my best NOT to let it stop me doing anything. I have never been unemployed in my life, Had my last O level exam on the thurs afternoon & work on the fri morn , 2 days before my 16th birthday. I have been to Asia on my Motorbike & used to spend 3 days a week in the North sea, windy board, jet-ski & catamaran. A very determined T1 for more than 50yrs ! 😱
 
MarkT said:
Was at the Battle of Waterloo re-enactment in Belgium. Standing around open fields, very little if any shade, I found I felt the heat weighed me down and my mood was affected. I was quite short with a few fellow members of the audience, and impatient with myself.
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Oh my days, I do lead a boring life D or no D. 😱
 
HOBIE said:
I TRY my best NOT to let it stop me doing anything. I have never been unemployed in my life, Had my last O level exam on the thurs afternoon & work on the fri morn , 2 days before my 16th birthday. I have been to Asia on my Motorbike & used to spend 3 days a week in the North sea, windy board, jet-ski & catamaran. A very determined T1 for more than 50yrs ! 😱
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That is good that you don't let it stop you, I still work and bake/decorate cakes, go to cake decorating classes/shows, going abroad on holiday, it is just when I have the family round and make them a lovely afternoon tea with cute little sandwiches, scones, victoria sandwich etc I am not able to enjoy any of it. Like at the cake decorating class I did on Sat, the tutor did a lovely lunch which included a cheese cake and all I was able to eat was the salad and tuna, she also had cake samples and icing sample for us to try which I had to pass up on, don't get me wrong I still enjoyed my class, but everyone wants to know why I was not trying these things, but at least this time I was not on my own as one lady was gluten intolerant so couldn't try all the cake samples.
 
Thanks for all these responses everyone, really interesting to hear all the different ways people are (and aren't) affected by diabetes during everyday life. A lot in there it might be easy to overlook if you don't live with diabetes every day, so very very useful.

I'll post the next weekly 'Future of Diabetes' question later today, and look forward to hearing from you all again 🙂
 
Nothing much really, just the usual thing of people saying, 'oh go on, have a slice of cake, just once won't matter...' 🙄
 
Went to my first concert after being diagnosed last September. Had a great evening out - danced, had a few drinks (did not go mad), checked my bloods regularly. Came home and had a banana before bed. Woke up at 3am with a hypo, then had a hypo the next day and have struggled to get out of bed every day since. Five days on I am just about feeling normal. So frustrated - am hoping it will get better in time.
 
Hello @Sandracun and welcome to the forum 🙂
You will find in time you work out how much less insulin you need if you're going out dancing, so it will get better, don't worry. It's not an exact science, but it gets easier over time to work out what effects you and how much!
 
I was going to add to this thread, I mentioned one particular episode, but for me the main problem is not that diabetes stops me doing anything or that it's a big deal, it's just little irritating things like the days when R cooks dinner for 7.30, I test to inject before eating and find I'm hypo and hadn't realised, and by the time I've treated the hypo, re-tested and injected, and re-heated my dinner, he's finished eating his, it's 8.00, and we no longer have quite enough time for the DVD we were going to watch. Nothing major, just a lot of little things like that.
 
I got myself out of the house on two evenings to do longsword and then at the weekend I went to a folk festival, with the morris, but met up for longsword as well, went in the procession to play music, went home very tired but happy.
I went out to the butcher to pick up a whole hogget - a well grown lamb, and then went to the shops for strawberries and cream, chocolate, protein rolls and corned beef etc
Diet and exercise does have attractions.
 
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